Although i'm fluid on amd vs intel just buying for w.e gives me the best performance for what i'm willing to pay same with ram makers i flow between major brands ocz, corsair etc.

And i just flow between Asus and Gigabyte mobo's

Nvidia vs ATI i side with Nvidia out of i don't find ati's drivers and software all that friendly sounds odd but it's that coupled with really frustrating expriences with the 2000's series and 256 colors, had a card die in about 3 years it's a good run but really i never want a gpu to ever die out. Also just so happens green is my favorite color is red is my least favorite

Oh yeah am I'm 100% time buy pc power and cooling psu's with single rail 12v can't go wrong with a legend like them

I have alot of perfences.

For me, it's AMD as I feel they are more for the budget minded people like me rather than Intel. Also, they prevent Intel from getting a monopoly on the CPU market.

No! I'm not loyal to any company. I'm loyal only to myself. I would buy what is best for me!

Which is based of past experiences usually good experiences with a company = continued buying from them as long as price isn't bad and bad expires = termination of use. Usually a bad experience with tech support after a frustration issue arose would lead someone from boycotting their company.

I'm as loyal to them as they are to me. Which explained happily by their PR dept in a press release carefully worded by a team of lawyers and summed up by me. " As a non stockholder, any perceived notion that we owe you anything by being our customer/fan/stockholder/employee/enthusiasts/etc is nil, despite our ads/claims which we consider to be more of a artistic form of expression rather than a statement of fact. Please vacate the premises immediately, stragglers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Thank you, and we look forward to doing business with you again. "

I look at the whole picture. If AMD is offering a competitive price on their CPUs, I will generally choose AMD to prevent Intel's monopoly being too big. However, quality is a concern. That's why I don't use Windows Live Search, and instead use Yahoo! search (Google's great, but they have far too much of a monopoly).

I also don't tend to buy from wasteful or anticompetitive companies, such as Apple (needing to buy a new screen for every iMac, instead of just new components) or Sony (memory sticks?).

Basically, I look at quality, price and market share, and try to determine which company really deserves my money the most.

I'm somewhat loyal to G.skill RAM, just because the fastest and most reliable RAM I've ever gotten came from G.skill, though I don't necessarily buy G.skill exclusively.

I'm very loyal customer - to the companies that offer best bang for my-hard-earned-buck. That's all! If you offer it for good price, I'll get it.

I do have some preferences ofcourse, if price is the same I'll get AMD/ATi based products to support the "underdog". That goes for CPUs, chipsets (MBOs), and graphics cards. But if Intel has way more competitive product, ofcourse I'll buy it. As for manufacturers that produce boards (either motherboards or gpahics cards) I've got no real preference. I know 95% of them are mostly the same. I try to stay with quality brands for MBOs (Gigabyte for example), but if I'm building cheap (non-gaming) home/office PCs I'll buy ASRock (for example) without any problems. After all, they're ASUStek child company, so they can't be bad.. and they always offer good quality for the money they ask from me.

So yeah.. if you offer good product for a low price, I'm all yours. Loyality be-gone!

I only buy AMD/ATI because they have a factory and R%D in Europe unlike Intel who doesn't so I'll never buy Intel.

newegg.com

EVGA, Western Digital, Gigabyte, and Black Angus

I liked CompaQ laptops/desktops products but it turned to HP they still make good desktops but laptops become worst
I liked IBM laptops but Lenovo not always fallows the tradition and I try not to buy China (PRC) products
When I buy things I use experience (I like ATI and there products (not AMD CPU)) but this is just a factor to consider in the end price/value is always dominant.

hp rulez

eVGA and Seagate. Both are great about RMA's.

ATI's gaining a lot of ground after replacing my 9800GT with a 4870 and seeing everything improve. nVidia's plan to rebadge g92 cards didn't help my opinion of them either, even if they did back down from that when it was leaked. They don't seem far from their MX440 days where new products are less capable than the old by design. I swore off ATI with the 9600's due to endless driver issues, but the new ones don't seem to have that problem since AMD's taken over.

EVGA,Corsair psus, and Asus mobos are my fav but i would stride to someone else if i had to.

my work cause they pay me....... other then that no, but i have a definit dislike for dell

I always buy Enermax power supplies.

I have to say that ASUS is one of my favourite brands. Their products just seem to fit me right.

They don't dumb down their products, and now that they have branched out into many fields, they still keep to that principle.

Asus motherboards, i'm liking corsair's PSUs at the moment, but i'm just as loyal to Antec. I always buy antec cases, except where the budget will stretch to lian li. Corsair ram too. I will only buy hard drives from Seagate's ES range, and then i RAID 1 them for extra safety. Worth every extra cent.

I have an assortment of Samsung screens, which are all good. Logitech for my mouse (G5 2007) and keyboard (cordless MX duo), as well as my racing wheel - a G25, and spare mouse - a G9.

Graphics card from XFX if it's nVidia, or Sapphire if it's ATi. Canon for printers and cameras - i have an IXUS70 (7mp p&s) and a 400D, or rebel xti to you Americans..

Dell business laptops are the only way to go for laptops. good price, good parts replacement program, decent laptops, no glitz on the business ones, unlike toshiba laptops which make me feel nauseous with all the lights and 'molten plastic'.

Oh, and swifttech and dangerden for most of my water cooling gear.

I'm loyal only to Nvidia, because I feel it's the only force of REAL innovation in today's semiconductor market.

Newegg for all my computing needs, XFX (or Sapphire) depending on which card but the XFX cards have been the best I've owned by far, Abit made the best boards when they were around, Mushkin memory (10 years and I've never had a single bad stick or problem), NEC Monitors, Western Digital hdds, Zalman coolers, Rosewill fans.

CPU:
No AMD or Intel preference, since my trusty 386 40Mgz I went back and forth between the two: I went from 386, 366 celleron, Athlon Thunderbird 1300 MHz, athlon xp 3000+, Athlon 64 x2 3800+, C2D E6450, C2Q 6600, I thin i'll go Phenom 2 next.

Mobo:
Asus, before that I was with DFI Lanparty. I love Asus, they have never let me down before, one of my Asus boards survived after I splilled a whole glass of brandy on it while it was running(twice in 3 month's, don't ask). If Asus let me down I'll probably go with Gigabyte or MSI next, heard good things from both.

Ram:
I'm not fussy about ram, usually kingston, but thats only because the place I work at alwys have Kingston ram, and I get ram wholesale price


Gfx:
I've used every known brand, but for ATI I prefer Saphire

Platform:
I like Windows and Ubuntu about the same, never used Mac so I can't comment on Mac.

Newegg, AMD, Antec PSU and Cases, Gigabyte or Asus mobos, G.Skill RAM. Oh, and Harely-Davidson for life!

newegg 4 life!!!

Wow, a lot of Newegg fans out there! I will always love Komplett Ireland. Really great prices this side of the pond.

I have been loyal to ATI for a long time now but mainly because some how when i try to run NVidia i always burn them in a mather of days.

While reading this article i realize that the brands i chose because of there brand are the ones that give me the most problems like Iomega and motorola and still i keep buying them.

I wonder why?

+1.

I used to be a fan of AMD, but that ended with Core2 and I've gone back to Intel (having not used one since Pentium MMX). Currently, I am using a Core i7 920.

I am loyal to NVidia (even after the Vista crashing and some other odd driver issues I've had), have never bought an ATI card, and never intend to. Currently, I am using a GeForce GTX 285 1GB.

For branding, I love EVGA and bought my recent video card and motherboard (EVGA X58) based entirely on the EVGA brand, not even worth looking at any other brand. EVGA support, customer service, and track record with all the products of theirs I've ever used is irreproachable.

I am fairly loyal to Palm products (even though Garnet is ancient at this point) and look forward to the Palm Pre, not as an iPhone killer, but as validation of my loyalty to the company. Currently, I am using a Palm Treo 755p.

For non-homebrew computers, I always go HP for their fast and friendly warranty support and reliable systems. (Dell has given me such a runaround on getting replacement server parts that I will NEVER buy a THING from them.) Currently, both my fiancée and I use HP Pavilion m9300t desktops.

Im loyal to the almighty dollar and what it will buy me.

although this seems the most logical approach, why would a person give up the quality of a company they have good experience with? I mean newegg has been so good to me, I ALMOST never buy things from anywhere else... and besides, i usually look at their user reviews before buying a product, which once again, proves my loyalty to them... you can fish out the idiots by looking at the positive rating, or even if they bought the product from the site! i

it cut me off. i was gonna say --i love you newegg!!!